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It's a type of lipid (fat). Cells need cholesterol to maintain their membranes. Cholesterol is also the precursor to many other molecules, including steroid hormones (testosterone, estrogens, cortisol, aldosterone, etc.) and vitamin D.
It's essential for life, but human livers make enough from scratch every day that you don't need to get any from your diet.
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What is fatty substance found in all animal tissue?
cholesterol
What is a waxy fat-like substance that can build up in the arteries?
Cholesterol is a waxy fat-like substance that can build up in the arteries.
Is cholesterol a fat-like substance associated with lymph nodes?
No, cholesterol is a fat-like substance associated with the liver.
What fatty substance builds up on the walls of arteries?
cholesterol
Chemically it is C27H46O but its English name is from Greek for solid bile What is it?
Cholesterol
Is cholesterol a molecule?
Cholesterol is a fatty (lipid) substance carried around the body by proteins. These combinations of cholesterol and proteins are called lipoproteins. So cholesterol doesn't 'have', or contain, protein, but is chemically linked to proteins, hence the term 'lipoprotein'. There are two main types of lipoproteins:LDL (low-density lipoprotein) is the harmful type of cholesterol.HDL (high-density lipoprotein) is a protectivetype of cholesterol.
What sort of nutrient is cholesterol?
fat
What is a pure substance as an element?
it has to be chemically combined into a new substance
What is a substance that cannot be broken down chemically into a smaller substance?
element
What is Substance that cannot be broken down chemically into other substance are?
An element.
What is a substance that cannot be broken down chemically into another substance?
An element.
Is Beef liver cholesterol hdl or ldl?
Cholesterol is cholesterol. HDL and LDL are lipoproteinswhichtransport the hydrophobic substance "cholesterol" in the blood stream.Beef liver contains cholesterol.
